Marriage and Children (Revision 1930)

There are 13 children in Fire Emblem Awakening, all of which can be unlocked as playable Characters via marriage. The children can be acquired in Paralogues, or Side Missions, appearing after the corresponding mother (or your main character, aka My Unit) gets married and you complete Chapter 13.

For two characters to get married they must be of the opposite sex. Only certain mothers may have offspring (listed below). To make a marriage happen, you must simply pair up characters on the battlefield repeatedly to improve their relationship status. Once the relationship status reaches "S" rank, the characters will marry, if able.

It should be noted that at anytime two characters are married (reach the "S" rank) after chapter 13, their corresponding child's paralogue chapter will instantly appear on the world map. Therefore, with the exception of Chrom, it is not necessary to reach an "S" rank with the potential parents before the completion of chapter 13.

Notes:

Both Chrom and a male My Unit character have the ability to have two children

All children are recruited at level 10

Children characters can reach "S" ranks as well (marry each other), but cannot have children, unless married to My Unit

All children begin with "C" rank support to both parents and any siblings (if applicable)

Children get their parents' last equipped skill (Remember that you can rearrange skills using the "Equip Skills" command, the bottom skill on the list is inhierited) except for Chrom's children and Inigo - Chrom's daughters get the "Aether" skill, and Chrom's sons get the "Royal Weapon" skill. Olivia's "Secret Dance" skill cannot be passed to Inigo, as it is locked to the Dancer class. Make sure you carefully consider which skills you are passing on. This allows for some creative customization by the player. For instance, if the mother can become a Dark Pegasus, you should pass Dark Flier's Lv15 skill "Galeforce" along. You could also potentially pass "Astra" to a Taguel, both "Sol" and "Luna" to a Knight, or even "Lethality" to a Priest.

Skills are passed on to the child when the paralogue chapter is started, not when it appears on the map. Therefore, skill acquisition in the parents can continue after the "S" rank has been acheived as long as the paralogue has not been completed.

If daughter's father is a male main character, Gaius, or Donnel, the daughter can become a Pegasus Knight. If the daughter's father is Vaike, the daughter can become a Mercenary. The Mercenary class is extremely useful (because of the "Armsthift" skill and "Sol" skill). Therefore, you should consider carefully about the spouses of the My Unit character, Gregor, and Donnel.

Children's available Classes are classes which either their father or mother can become (except for male-only or female-only classes. The male-only or female-only classes are changed to corresponding sex-only classes). Additionallty, any child produced from your My Unit character will have the ability to change to any class (excluding gender-specific classes).

Children's base stats and growth rates are the same as the mother, but they inherit the sum of both parents' stat modifiers +1 (the green + numbers). Aesthetically, the children will always have the the hair color of the father (except Morgan).

WARNING: Chrom gets married after you complete Chapter 11, so develop a relationship early!

Due to Lucina's join time, it is recommended that you get any skills you wish Lucina to have on her parents through the additional SpotPass, DLC, or Reeking Box grinding. Having a character with both Aether and Galeforce at LV10 (Ripe for promotion!) this early in the game is insane.

If you chose female MyUnit, Lucina can do everything. No, seriously, everything. Also, Morgan becomes much stronger thanks to Royal Weapon access.

If you chose Sully, Lucina cannnot become Pegasus Knight. Therefore Lightning Speed cannot be acquired. However, there are plenty of dodge skills and firepower-support skills.

If you chose Maribelle, abandon Falchion and become a magic attacker.

If you chose Sumia, Lucina can be passed down Galeforce or acquire it on her own. Due to having access to Aether already, it is not really worth going after any additional attack skills, as this pairing grants a high enough skill for Aether to trigger about 1/4th of the time.

If you chose Olivia (which is hard), Lucina can be devastating with multiple high-activation chance attack skills, and Inigo gains access to Royal Weapon, increasing the chances of his easy-to-get Sol activating. To ensure that you get Chrom to marry Olivia, make sure that Chrom never builds a support relationship with any of his other possible wives, even if it is just one heart, and then make Olivia Dance for him a few times in her joining chapter.

Morgan's gender is opposite from MyUnit's. Actually, My Unit can become all classes except for sex-exclusive classes, Manakete, Taguel, Dancer, Villager, and Fighter . If the companion can become such classes (except for Dancer and Lord), Morgan can become them (For example, female Morgan between male My Unit and Nowi can become a Manakete). If the parent is Chrom, Olivia or Lucina, then Morgan will join as a Tactician with the Veteran skill as well as his/her inheritance.

One very important note is that Morgan can be derived from your male My Unit character from every female character in the game - this includes units recruited after Chapter 13 such as Anna, Say'ri, Tiki, Flavia, Emmeryn, and even Aversa. More importantly, My Unit can marry "children" units(in this case, Morgan can be someone's grandchild).

These options mean that Morgan is potentially the strongest character in the game, if you pair up your characters wisely.

Note: It is not possible to utilize other "My Unit" characters in marriage, either through StreetPass or through your Avatar Logbook to create an army of Morgans or other My Unit children, as all characters recruited through StreetPass, SpotPass, or your Avatar Logbook cannot engage in support conversations.

While Lissa is a magic fighter/healer (Unless you reclassed her to War Cleric, which renders her virtually unusable in combat but does give Owain some bonuses), Owain is Myrmidon. If his father is also a magic fighter, you should consider using a Second Seal to change his class, although there is an upcoming DLC that will give him access to the Demon Fighter class, which uses both Tomes and Swords, and Lissa's high Magic makes him an ideal candidate.

Also, Lissa can become a Dark Flier. It is therefore possible for him to inherit Galeforce from Lissa, and an offensive move from his father, such as Astra.

NOTE: If Owain talks to all of the Green-Unit NPCS in his joining chapter, he will gain his own personal weapon, the Missiletain. This is a very good sword for a character of his level, with a decent attack power and an additional +1 to Skill, which is nice to have. This can help compensate for Lissa's lack of physical abilities.

Sully's available classes are Cavalier, Myrmidon, and Wyvern Rider. However, Kielle can also become an Knight.

Important thing: Sully is a candidate for Chrom's wife.

If you choose Frederick/Stahl as her father, no more classes are available for her; you should avoid this pair unless you are certain that the available builds are what you want to go with. On the contrary, if you choose Donnel, there are 7 basic classes are available, 6 of which are based on weapon attacks, which makes her capable of various situations. However, Donnel is extremely attractive for most "mothers", so don't jump in this pair without consideration.

Miriel is a typical magic fighter(strong magic, weak defense). Her husband should enhance Laurent's magic or support his weakness. Pairing Miriel with Kellam gives Laurent a much higher defense, increasing his general usefulness.

Although Taguels cannot be promoted using a Master Seal, there are some useful Second Seal classes that can be utilized to help Yarne's initial skill set. For instance, a Taguel with both Lethality and Astra (from the father) can be highly destructive. Alternatively, upon reaching the level cap of 30 for the Taguel race it is possible to use a second seal to reset Yarne to LV1 Taguel and keep his current stats, allowing for an infinite loop until all of them are capped.

Since Cordelia can become a Pegasus Knight, Mercenary, and Dark Mage, Severa is one of the most useful characters in the game (she can be passed the coveted Galeforce skill). However, Cordelia lacks in attack skills, so you should choose someone who has such skills as her husband (A good example would be Lon'Qu for Astra or My Unit for any ability you please).

Nah is a powerful and flexible character, just like her mother. Choose her father to specialize one side of her: devastating firepower, or impregnable fortress. If her father is Donnel, and you pass down Aptitude, she becomes nigh-unstoppable in any shape or form due to insanely high growths.

We must note that Sumia's candidate husbands are a few, but include Chrom. Other candidates are male My Unit, Frederick, Gaius, and Henry.

There are slim choices, so choose her companion as soon as possible. She is arguably one of the more powerful children, having access to Galeforce and Aether just like Lucina if you pair Sumia with Chrom.

Olivia is the Dancer, but Inigo cannnot become a Dancer. However, his Mercenary class is extremely useful for many purposes. Before you acquire him, you should grow Olivia to get Galeforce and pass it to him.

His available classes are Mercenary, Myrmidon, and Fighter. Any father will be okay for him except for Gregor or Donnel (If you chose them, only few extra classes are available).

Also: Olivia can marry Chrom.

Be warned, Paralogue 6 is perhaps the most difficult child recruitment chapter. Bring plenty of armor-busters and an archer or two, and make sure to feed Inigo some kills for some sweet extra gear at the end.

Cherche is good at Power status, so enhance Gerome's Power to gain lethal damage to enemies. He also has some of the highest growths in the game, and becomes insanely good if granted access to Aptitude through Donnel.